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FOUND MURDERED.; THE STARTING DISCOVERY MADE BY A CONTRACTOR AT READING.

SCRANTON, Penn., Aug. 29.--A contractor named Daniel O'Brien, while gathering stones on the outskirts of the city this afternoon, made a ghastly discovery in a clump of bushes. It was the body of a young man, across whose throat was a fearful gash, and whose head was battered into a shapeless mass with some blunt weapon.

August 30, 1885

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